Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 66
... Poetry " . The crisis , I understand , does not arise from the fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to ...
... Poetry " . The crisis , I understand , does not arise from the fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to ...
Page 103
... poetic drama ; Kipling was by no means exhausted ; but poetry and Imperialism went out as the Liberals swept to victory in 1906 , and in their place came Utopias , social criticism , and domestic politics . Ibsen , no longer a villain ...
... poetic drama ; Kipling was by no means exhausted ; but poetry and Imperialism went out as the Liberals swept to victory in 1906 , and in their place came Utopias , social criticism , and domestic politics . Ibsen , no longer a villain ...
Page 172
... poetry or prose ; but like a good Conservative ( which he was ) and bon vivant ( which he also was ) , he found relish in all good things and proclaimed his relish . In one of his later books he said : It is good to have walked by ...
... poetry or prose ; but like a good Conservative ( which he was ) and bon vivant ( which he also was ) , he found relish in all good things and proclaimed his relish . In one of his later books he said : It is good to have walked by ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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